The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 17

Sadly he betook himself to the pond, and sitting down on the bank, began to weep.

Who acts: two · What happens: betake, sit down, begin, weep · To what, where: two, bank

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sadly	sadly	ADV	_	3 betook	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 betook	nsubj
3	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 betook	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 pond	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pond	det
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 betook	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 began	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 sitting	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 bank	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bank	det
14	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 betook	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 weep	mark
18	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 betook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	betake	past	two	two		to the pond; sadly property	tree rules
2	sit down	gerund			the bank	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
3	begin	past	two not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	weep	to-infinitive	two not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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